Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] Provide in-kernel headers for making it easy to extend the kernel | From | "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <> | Date | Thu, 7 Mar 2019 01:42:45 +0100 |
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On 07.03.19 00:09, Pavel Machek wrote:
> So your licensing requirements prevent you from having headers in the > filesystem, but allow module with the headers hidden inside on the > filesystem?
Maybe it's just because I've missed most of the thread, but which license requirements exactly could that be ?
The kernel still is GPL, isn't it ? So, any device vendor needs to hand out the exact kernel source he hat built the image from, anyways. (by the way: we should start a flash mob action of demanding sources from the pocket-computers-with-3g vendors, but that's another story ;-))
So, what kind of license issue could it be, which prevents putting the files (that you'd have to hand out anyways) directly into filesystem, while allowing them in a .ko in the same filesystem ?
I'm confused.
> Looks like you should just tar xvzf > this-is-a-kernel-module-I-promise.ko /usr/src/linux/include :-).
We should ask coreutils folks to add an ELF encapsulation to tar ;-)
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